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The Emergence of Sign Languages

We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in huma...

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Main Author: Sandler, Wendy
Other Authors: Aronoff, Mark, Padden, Carol
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:
Emerging Lexicon
Emerging Grammar
Pidgin
Wh-questions
Sign Language Emergence
Pronouns
Handshape
Turn-taking
Homesign
Language / Bicssc
Word Order
Conventionalization
Yucatec Maya Sign Language
N/a
Language Change
Socialization
Language Preference
Creole
Language Shift
Sign Language
Interaction
Acquisition
Kufr Qassem Sign Language
Grammaticalization
Verb Agreement
Grammatical Categories
Silent Gesture
Language Emergence
Non-manuals
Aspect
Kata Kolok
Classifiers
Gesture
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Israeli Sign Language
Object Descriptions
Agent-based Modeling
Tzotzil
Bilinguals
Embedding
Improvisation
Iconicity
Social Structure
Signing Space
Sign Language Evolution
Central Taurus Sign Language
Non-manual Markers
Mergence
Lexical Variation
Village Sign Language
Iconic Representations
Mexico
Inflection
Negation
Phonology
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Summary:We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in human societies. We have brought together a collection of articles on emerging sign languages that contribute a great deal to our current understanding of this process.This Special Issue covers eleven different emerging sign languages around the world. The articles deal with several aspects of language emergence, including, most notably: (1) the relationship between the emerging language and the culture of the larger society; (2) the role of iconicity in the emergence of sign language; (3) the relationship between the shared context in a small signing community and the degree of variation in the vocabulary; and (4) the vulnerability of budding sign languages. Spoken creole languages are also young, but are different from emerging sign languages, in that the speakers of pidgins from which creoles are assumed to have descended already had native languages. One article compares the features of creoles and of emerging sign languages.We are especially pleased with the diversity and breadth of interests of the contributors to the volume, who are based on four continents. The languages that they cover are equally diverse in their geographical provenance.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (288 p.)
ISBN:books978-3-0365-6246-9
9783036562469
9783036562452

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